Flamingo Park Historic District
West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
Marker Inscription
Flamingo Park Historic District. There are 501 contributing structures within the Flamingo Park subdivision, which was officially platted on May 17, 1921, with more than 76 building permits issued in 1923. Built on the highest of all coastal ridges between downtown West Palm Beach and Miami, with an ocean view, Flamingo Park was home to many of the most prominent citizens of the time. The Florida Land Boom era is represented here in concentration of architecturally significant homes in Mission and Mediterranean Revival and Frame Vernacular styles, constructed between 1921 and the mid-1930s. Numerous Masonry Vernacular, Art Moderne, American Foursquare, Colonial Revival and Craftsmen/Bungalow residences are found here. The Alfred Comeau House at 701 Flamingo Drive was built in 1924. Comeau was a prominent businessman, who also built one of the first West Palm Beach skyscrapers in 1925. The Flamingo Park Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Erected by The Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association and the Florida Department of State
The Story
Platted in May 1921 on one of the highest coastal ridges between West Palm Beach and Miami, Flamingo Park boomed almost overnight, with dozens of building permits issued in 1923. Its 500-plus contributing homes — Mission and Mediterranean Revival, Frame Vernacular, Art Moderne, and more — housed many of the era's prominent citizens, including businessman Alfred Comeau, who raised one of the city's first skyscrapers in 1925. The district is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Why it matters
It is a remarkably intact record of the 1920s Florida land boom and the architectural ambitions it unleashed.
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